“A search of one account is not a search of your public body.”
He answers the Psychiatric Security Review Board’s letter of November 2, 2026, and writes, “Search every account of your public body, and produce the records of that search.”
Public Records Officer,
On November 2, 2026, you wrote that “the Executive Director, who would be the person in our agency to have such communications, ran a search of her email account during this time frame.”1
At the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, it was not the director. On March 3, 2026, OPRD’s emergency manager wrote to the captain of Oregon State Police Government and Media Relations about a member of the public, with the deputy director copied.2 Any employee of a public body can write that email. A search of one account is not a search of your public body.
My request of October 31, 2026 asks for your public body’s communications with the two OSP accounts, through any channel it uses: email, Microsoft Teams chat and channel messages, text messages, and voicemail.3 It also includes the records of the search conducted to answer it: each search as saved by the system that ran it, with its query, terms, date range, accounts searched, and result counts. You did not provide them.
A response is complete when the public body provides “all requested records within the possession or custody of the public body” [ORS 192.329(2)(a)]. That includes these.
If you take the position that the records of the search are not part of my request, I will learn something from that about how to make a request to you: wait until you confirm the search was run, then make a second public records request for its records. I have already built the system that does that. You are looking at it. Each second request it sends is one more for you to answer.
Search every account of your public body, and produce the records of that search. Follow the statute [ORS 192.329(2)(a)].
Thank you for your contribution to the record.
